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The Month In Quotes: April 2017

by Rob Eves

A STAR IS BORN

"I told her before she passed away I was going to live my dream, I was going to go D-1, I was going to get out of Richmond, I was going to get out of Oakland. I was going to go to the NFL. I made that promise to her, man. 30 seconds later she passed away. And this is who I do it for, man. Come on man. Get to the damn quarterback. We gonna get to the quarterback!… It means everything, man. It means everything. I made a promise to her… I was going to live my dreams to play in the NFL. And I'm here man. I completed the promise. It means every-f*cking-thing to me. Excuse my language! Man, FINE ME LATER MAN."

-- Former UCLA defensive end Takkarist McKinley, announcing his arrival in the NFL after being drafted 26th overall by the Atlanta Falcons. (NFL Network)

WELP

"If you don't draft me No. 1, I will punish your team for the next 10 to 12 years. I'll knock your QB out of the game every time we play you, and I'll have to kick the hell out of No. 1, whoever it is.

-- Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett, making threats to the team prior to being drafted No. 1 overall in the 2017 NFL draft. (ESPN)

UNQUESTIONABLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN HISTORY

-- Tennessee Titans cornerback Adoree Jackon, answering the team's questions about which living or historical figure he would most like to meet after being drafted in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft. (ESPN)

CANNON CHECKDOWNS

"It's going to be awesome getting to learn from a guy like Alex Smith."

NO TRUER WORDS SPOKEN

"We have complete confidence in Alex Smith, we love Alex Smith here… The only issue is that we're all getting a little older. Unfortunately this happens in life."

-- Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, justifying Mahomes' selection as a move to begin planning for life after Smith. (NBC Sports)

MODEST TOO

"No one else game-plans the way I do. No one else prepares the way I do. No one else knows football the way I do. No one else is as big as I am. No one else is as powerful a runner as I am…. No one else can do what I can do. And I've truly figured out in this process, if I can maximize all my potential in every aspect of the game -- this is bold -- I do have the ability to be the greatest quarterback to ever play. Imagine taking (Tom) Brady's intellect and Brady's preparation and putting it on a guy with Cam Newton's body. Why can't I be the greatest?"

*INAUDIBLE THROUGH BOOING*

"I wanna thank the Eagles fans for allowing me to have a career in the NFL. Thank you. I am honored as an undrafted free agent to be selected to make the Cowboys' second-round draft pick. And on behalf of the five-time world champion Dallas Cowboys; Hall of Fame owner Jerry Jones; Gene Jones and the Jones family; coach Jason Garrett; all the Cowboys players that played before me, that played with me, that played after me; with the … 60th pick in the second round, the Dallas Cowboys select, defensive back from Colorado, Chidobe Awuzie!"

CHARGERS MARKETING DEPARTMENT MOST IMPROVED UNIT 2017

"The opportunity to partner with Lamps Plus before my rookie NFL season, especially with my last name, is the perfect scenario… I'm confident that my girlfriend Natosha and I will have the best-decorated and most well-lit rookie home in our new team city!"

I'M SURE HE WOULD IF HE COULD

"I'm kind of on the black side of things right now, with the perception of my persona… It's hard to fight the fans… I have to show that Greg Hardy is not a f*cking psychopath. And I say f*cking because it's that extreme."

-- Disgraced former NFL defensive end Greg Hardy, setting out to earn his way back onto an NFL roster after a series of off-field incidents led to the Dallas Cowboys to decide against resigning him after the 2015 season. (Bleacher Report)

UNLIKE A CERTAIN ALABAMA COACH WHO SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS

"I'm not really big on humiliating assistant coaches in front of everybody."

-- Florida Atlantic head coach Lane Kiffin, taking a swipe at his former superior, Alabama head coach Nick Saban, after a number of notorious sideline spats between the two during Kiffin's time as Alabama's offensive coordinator. (NBC Sports)

SOME/MOST

"Jerry is really personable. I mean, you've got to like Jerry Jones. If you're around him, you've got to like him, unless you hate the Dallas Cowboys, which some people do."

-- Wade Phillips, sharing his thoughts on Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in an extract of his newly-released autobiography, "Son Of Bum." (Deadspin

AND FINALLY, A FUN ONE…

-- San Jose State running backs coach Alonzo Carter, dancing to M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" during the team's spring football practices. Carter actually worked as a dancer and choreographer for M.C. Hammer and appears in the video for "U Can't Touch This." (houseofhilights, Instagram)

Posted by: Rob Eves on 05 May 2017

24 comments, Last at
09 May 2017, 8:02pm by
mehllageman56

Comments

Re: rookie names, I'm amazed that Panthers fifth-round CB Corn Elder has flown under the radar. Corn Elder! He sounds like a druid charged with guaranteeing a fruitful harvest. If he ends up cracking the Panthers' depth chart, Tanier will have a joke about him every week.

One of my absolutely favorite things about this draft is Chad Kelly was Mr. Irrelevant, meaning an epic douchebag like him is not only always going to be remembered for being the last one picked in a draft, but that it means he didn't get the option to choose a team in any way and is stuck with the team that took him. It's a beautiful thing.

Be careful what you wish for. He went to a team that has everything but a good quarterback, has the strongest home field advantage in professional football, and a nasty defense. You might end up hearing about him for fifteen years. Glad the Pats didn't take him.

Ah ok.
Glad that it made the list or else I would've missed it. [/sarcasm]
I remember the sequence of Reggie, Vince, D'Brickashaw.
So I guess I'm numbed out to unorthodox names. Who calls his kid D'Brickashaw?!

That's a bold choice of fiducial bad QB, Steve. Did you actually see Bobby Douglass play? I missed his Bears tenure by a year or so (my first year of watching was 1977), and I don't remember seeing him with either NO or GB. And I'm on the old side of posters here.